Drop Scones with White Chocolate & Summer Berries

Near my office, there’s a new bakery that I often walk past in the mornings. The other day I stopped to get myself a little something sweet and the “Strawberry and White Chocolate Drop Scones” caught my eye and what a good choice that was! Sweet white chocolate drops and juicy strawberries liven up a […]

Buttermilk Waffles with Cherries & Cream

For today’s receipe I’m combining something from my recent American memories with my not quite so recent German childhood memories: When I grew up in Germany, waffles were a special treat – a very popular one I might add. You could be sure that someone would have a waffle stall at any church or school fair […]

Chocolate Beetroot Cake

I’m back! Having spend most of the last three months in NY (with a visit to Botswana in between), I am now back in my own kitchen, here in London. I have to admit, that I did become one of those New Yorkers who doesn’t bother cooking or baking. But why would you when the […]

Toasted Banana Bread with Maple Mascarpone and Plum Compote

It’s been too long since my last post but things have been a bit busy for me lately as I have temporarily moved to NYC for a couple of months, which is very exciting. NYC is a food lover’s heaven! I am based in Brooklyn and the two local shops down the road, delis, as […]

Lemon Courgette Cake

After volunteering in Botswana earlier this year I am going back in October to see some of the kids in the school I worked at again and to help setting up some more orphan projects with a group of volunteers and therefore I have started ‘baking for charity’ again. I am getting involved hands on, […]